History and achievements

OFK Beograd is a Serbian club based in Karaburma, Belgrade. The club’s home ground is Omladinski Stadium with 19,000 seats. Their home colours are white and blue.

OFK Beograd was established in 1911 as BSK. The club won five Kingdom of Yugoslavia titles by 1941, but WWII called a halt to their performances. From 1945 till 1950, the club performed under the name ‘Metalac’. They had never been on top, but always stayed among the best teams like capital side Partizan and Red Star.

In 1950, the club decided to bring back their name and reestablished as BSK. In 1953, ‘The Romantics’ lifted the Yugoslav Cup and repeated their success in 1955, 1962 and 1966. In 1955 and 1964, BSK came second in the national league. In 1957, the name of the club was changed to OFK.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Belgrade side team participated in European cups and progressed to the 1962/1963 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup semifinals, but lost to English side Tottenham Hotspur. From the second half of the 1970s, OFK started to roll down the national league system and managed to regain its former position only by the early 1990s, when they took fourth place in the top division.

In 2003 and 2010, the club clinched bronze medals of the Serbian SuperLiga and progressed to the 2006 Serbia and Montenegro Cup finals, but lost to Red Star Belgrade.

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